Merewether Estate Adjustment in Equity Court Sydney
Said to be of great value, the original amount of £250,000 having been increased considerably since the death of the testator, the estate of the late…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1937
3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 189
"Midnight Court" at Royal Stolen Car Racket Exposed
An interesting new personality comes to the screen in John Litel star with Ann Dvorak in "Midnight Court," the main attraction this week at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Launch Wreck Three Men Missing Police Search Fails Sydney
Three men are believed to have been drowned either in Botany Bay or off the Heads yesterday. The 16ft launch in which they left…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fifty Wounded Californian Strike Fight Police Open Fire New York, April 25
At least 50 persons were wounded, several critically, in a battle between union strikers, non-union workers, and State police at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Failed to Leave for Australia Ceylon Police Seek Young Londoner London
Mark Bracegirdle a young Londoner, who arrived in Ceylon from Australia a year ago and has been ordered to leave the island because of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plot to Steal Crown Jewels Discovered French Police Watch Gang of U. S. A. Criminals London
It is reported from Paris that the police have discovered a plot by American gangsters to steal the Crown Jewels during the Coronation celebrations. SEVERAL notorious gangs are known…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Father Divine Pleads "Not Guilty" Released on Bail Police Powerless to Control Demonstrators (Australian Associated Press.) New York, April 24
New York police were compelled to confess themselves powerless to deal with the demonstrations following the release on ball of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court
Leonard Cyril Wilkinson, 21, and John William King, 24, appeared before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court, yesterday. Wilkinson was charged…
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William Anderson Lamb, alias William Jackson, of Onus-street. Telarah, was charged at West Maitland Police Court to-day that on October…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Essay Competition
The Director for Education (Mr. G. R. Thomas) bona sanctioned a request from the Commissioner for Police for an essay competition to be held on lines similar…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Womenfear Maniac Double Murder in Tasmania Launceston
Fearing that a maniac was responsible for the murder of two men near Morna, women of the neighborhood have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Search Owner of Abandoned Bicycle
Accompanied by the lad's relatives and other civilians, police from Newcastle and Stockton searched along the Stockton breakwater, and the nearby waterfront,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Politician's Pranks Convulse Court Paris
Spectators at the Riom (Puy-de-Dome) Assizes, were greatly amused to-day by the clowning of a former member of the Chamber of Deputies, Philibert Besson, who was charged with stealing a legal document…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Sit Down" Strikers Defy the Court Toulouse
A court order for the ejection of sit down strikers from La Tecoere aeroplane works should have been enforced to-day, but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Basis Sought Declaration by Federal Court Melbourne
Claiming that the economic resources of the country and the present conditions in industry warrant a higher basic wage than that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Hot Reception" Police Group Seek Alien Criminals at the Coronation London
A special group of Scotland Yard men, unofficially termed the "Hot Reception Committee," are watching for alien criminals who may elude the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →House Ablaze Sick Woman Saved By Police Was Unable to Move Sydney
Breaking into a burning house in Silver-street, Marrickville, to-night, police officers rescued Mrs. Eva Dawes, an elderly woman who was unable to move…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crown Will Not File a Bill Wounding of Police Chief in Melbourne Melbourne
An announcement that the Crown would not file a bill against Geoffrey Davies, 32, of Collingwood, on a charge of having wounded Superintendent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Men Dead Police Suspect Foul Play Bullet Wounds, But No Weapon Found Hobart
Lying on the roadway with bullet wounds in the head, the bodies of Henry Lawson and Gordon Francombe were found near Ulverstone…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Amazing Attitude Defendant in French Court Judge Furious: Crowd Amused Paris, April 26
Spectators at the Rioum Assizes were prostrated with mirth at he clowning of the former deputy, Phillibert Besson, who was charged with having stolen a…
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